Part 1. Small Group Discussion

1. Get together with the small group you discussed with on the first day.

Go around your group and share out the elements of identity that you put in your social identity chart. As you are listening to your teammates, put a mark on your sheet next to any elements that were the same as your teammates and write down any elements that they included that you did not.

2. Briefly discuss why you and your team chose certain elements of identity and why you didn’t include elements that other people did.

Part 2. Reading and Discussion Form

You will receive a Discussion Form for the reading assignment, “White People are Noticing”. There is a prereading question. Answer this BEFORE you read the article. While reading the article, practice some of the note taking strategies you discussed with your team, including marking up the text (annotating). You will be basing your discussion tomorrow on this reading, so it is important that you read it closely and carefully. What you do not finish in class is your homework for Friday.

Part 3: Textbooks

You will be going to get the textbook for this class, the Sociology textbook. For now you should take it home and leave it there until told otherwise.

1. On a piece of paper or a Doc, please take 5 minutes to respond to the following prompt. Please use complete sentences, and remember that a good, analytical, precise sentence is better than a mediocre, rambling, imprecise paragraph.

Prompt:

What do you understand the term "systemic racism" to mean? Have you had any experience with systemic racism?

2. Once both you and your partner (the person sitting in the row next to you, or a triplet if necessary) have both completed writing, turn and talk. First, introduce yourselves (names, pronouns, Instagram handle, blood type, etc.) and share why you chose to take this class. Second, have the partner with the birthday closest to today start by reading, word for word, their response to the prompt. While they are reading, the other partner should jot down the most important ideas and examples given (on their paper or Doc). Then switch and have the other read and take notes. Once both partners have read their response, discuss what you wrote and write a note on what is the most important similarity and most important difference in your responses.

3. Turn to the closest other pair and introduce yourselves, and share your agreement and disagreements with each other, making sure to take notes on what was discussed.

Homework for next class

1. You are going to be completing a "social identity chart" for class on Thursday. If there is time left in the period, you may begin it now.

2. After you have completed your social identity wheel, please read this article and answer the following questions (in complete sentences): A) Does intersectionality more accurately describe your experience of your identity than the single determinant model or the additive model? Briefly explain.

B) How does systemic racism impact your identity?